Jacksonville City Councilman Matt Carlucci is pushing to raise garbage fees to address a growing financial shortfall in the city’s trash collection services.

Waste bins the new provider will take can be purchased, but the price is steep for many. News4JAX found that an approved 95-gallon garbage cart can be purchased for $66, and a 65-gallon cart for $61. Plus, there’s a separate quarterly collection service fee of $15.33. And if you want to throw away just a bag of trash, it must have a sticker on it that costs $4.

It’s a beloved Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of beads or other trinkets to parade watchers.

“It’s been a continuous thing. One time it’s really been worse than this. It’s still bad, but it was worse than this.”

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Southeast reported a 47 foot male sperm whale stranded off the Florida Keys.

For many of us, plastic bags are a way to get our groceries, and anything else we buy, home from the store.

Go into any store right now to buy pretty much anything, and you’ll find literal tons of plastic packaging. Goods are shrink-wrapped, sealed and stored, all in plastic.

While we set aside one day a year to celebrate Earth Day and focus on ways each of us can protect our planet, there are things we can do every day that are simple and meaningful.

Jacksonville’s garbage woes appear to be on a decline -- but there are still problems in some areas of town.

Jacksonville's trash troubles were supposed to be getting better with the return of curbside recycling, but some people are telling us, nothing has changed.

A local property owner says he found hundreds of tires dumped on his vacant land.

Recycling bins and others are full across the city on Sunday night, just hours before the curbside recycling services end.